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Results of John Horsch Mennonite History Essay Contest 2004

 

Class I (Seminary and Graduate School):

First place: Jonathan Seiling
Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology, Toronto, Ontario
Solae (Quae?) Scripturae: Anabaptists and the Apocrypha
   
  Second place: H. Jean Hess
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana
Addressing One Another on the Changing Demands of Culture and Economy: The Mennonite Church Doctrine of Nonconformity, 1930-1959
   
  Third place: Keith Benner (tie)
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana
Education, Authority, and the Church in the life and thought of John Ellsworth Hartzler
   
  Tamara Sawatzky (tie)
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana
Material Culture: The Dutch Windmill as an Icon for Russian Mennonites

Class II (Undergraduate College and University):

First place: Erin Miller
Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio
The Kalona Amish: Retention and Defection Patterns of the 20th Century
   
  Second place: Rebecca Allen
Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana
My Birth, My Way: Reproductive Agency among Three Generations of Amish Women in Elkhart-LaGrange and Nappanee Settlements
   
  Third place: Darren T. Byler
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
The Geography of Difference: Constructing Identity in the Holmes County, Ohio, Amish Community

Class III (High School):

First place: Angela Dietzel
Lancaster Mennonite High School, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Welsh Mountain Home: The Path to Today’s Vision
   
  Second place: Elizabeth Evearitt
Lancaster Mennonite High School, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Art Therapy at Philhaven
   
  Third place: Monika Burkholder
Eastern Mennonite High School, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Glendon Blosser: An Effective Leader
   
   




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